Drexel student investigation

Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said yesterday that the case of the dead newborn found in a bloody tote bag would have been solved already if the suspect's family were less "affluent and powerful."

Police said the woman who gave birth is an 18-year-old Drexel University freshman and the granddaughter of Albert E. Piscopo, 62, president and chief executive of the Glenmede Trust Co. Chitwood said police have been denied access to family members who have information about the incident.

An attorney for the family disputed Chitwood's complaint. "I am not going to respond to Mike Chitwood anymore," said Piscopo's attorney, Arthur T. Donato Jr. "Any suggestion that we have provided anything other than extraordinary cooperation is just wrong."